Not much has changed with the hard drive over the past 20 years. While densities have increased and drives now hold more storage than anyone thought possible in 1984, things really haven't changed all that much. The drive still has heads and platters that spin and a block of data is accessed every time the platter spins around to the head. The traditional HDD has pretty much remain unchanged.

The SSD however changes everything. These new Solid State Drives have no moving parts, have no head or platters and they can access a block of data immediately when queried. Today we are looking at the possible successor to the traditional HDD and have the Crucial 32GB SSD on our bench for a little testing.

I say "the possible successor to the traditional HDD" as the current price of these drives makes it very difficult for many people to consider putting one of these in their system. Currently the prices are high and the capacities are relatively small and this will be an obstacle that will prevent them from rapid takeover in the storage industry. Lower prices and higher capacities are sure to come and then we'll see them take over.

You can read the entire review at BCCHardware.